Don't ask for emails. Give all the details here. It will maximize the number of people working on your story and the number of possible stories you will get. Not only that but a lot of authors won't even bother to PM you because they know these rules.

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Actually no, the south use the term south, or if the guy was trying to court a gal he was a gentile man of gentle persuasions to her friends. Do please not argue over something unless you actually know it.

Pre civil war is an accurate term to us, then they didn't know it was coming and when they did it was simply a coming war. Most of the terms bandied about now, are from now about then, they were not known about then.

Hell if anything is even mentioned of the civil war coming it's 'that nonsense brought on by those north buffoons that need us just like this and are too dumb to know it so we likely will have a short little war'.

Both sides were quite sure in the rightness of their side and their short win. Nobody thought it would take that long and cost that many men.

Dangit, I forgot to mention one thing. At the time gentile was a term used on all men who are not boorish, overbearing, or happen to be drunk at the time. Unless he happens to be a nice drunk then he is a gentile drunk. This term was in wide use on the east coast and even to the Mississippi river. Past that it was always other terms but cities were actually rather rare except for one or two.

Gentile southern men was not a term that was looked at until later on where there are romantic novels written about there, usually by a southerner. This is after 'a real gentleman' was the wording of choice for men.

Actually, I was pointing out the term is still correct. And indeed, it's more accurate, since antebellum can refer to any war. It just happens to often refer to the US Civil War in the USA. But don't shake your head and act like there's one and only one way to refer to any given time period.

If we were primarily thrashing the OP and not each other I'd be inclined to agree with you RJ. But he's mostly silent while the rest of us are complaining about the proper terminology of long dead people.

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If we were primarily thrashing the OP and not each other I'd be inclined to agree with you RJ. But he's mostly silent while the rest of us are complaining about the proper terminology of long dead people.

I believe he's just a story thief, looking for someone to write him the story so he could use it later, under another pen name, on Lit proper, or on another writing board.

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